George &ldquo\;Bob&rdquo\; Dekle\, who ser ved as the prosecuting attorney in the 1980 trial of serial killer Ted Bun dy\, will the guest speaker on Sunday\, September 8\, 2024\, at the Millho pper Branch of the Alachua County Library.
\nDekle has lectured exte nsively nationwide and is the author of numerous books on trial advocacy a nd legal history. His most recent book\, \;The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare \;(True Crime Histo ry) was published in 2021. His book about the Bundy case\, \;The L ast Murder: The Investigation\, Prosecution\, and Execution of Ted Bundy \;was published in 2011.
\nTed Bundy confessed \;to 30 h omicides that occurred between 1974 and 1978. His last known victim was 12 -year-old Kimberly Leach\, who was murdered in Lake City\, Florida\, 47 mi les north of Gainesville. His trial lasted a month and a half.
\nDek le served for two years as an assistant public defender and thirty years a s a prosecutor\, handling dozens of homicide cases. He also served as a Le gal Skills Professor at Levin College of Law\, University of Florida\, fro m 2006 through June 2016.
\nHis many books include \;Six Cap sules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts\, \;which was awarded a gold medal by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association and silver medals by the Independent Publishers Association Book Awards and Royal Pa lm Literary Awards of the Florida Writers Association.
\nPrairie Defender: The \;Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln \;won a sch olarship award from the Illinois Historical Society and gold and silver me dals from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. Dekle has also c oauthored books\, including \;The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: A Cri tique of the Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
\nA book signing will follow Dekle&rsquo\;s talk on the Bundy case. The presentation is fr ee and open to the public.
\nThe Writers' Alliance of Gainesville (W AG) promotes encourages and supports aspiring and experienced regional wri ters. This goal is accomplished via monthly meetings\, public readings\, s mall critique groups\, a literary journal\, and writers' contests and coll aborations with schools and civic organizations to foster creative express ion through the written word. Learn more at https://writersalliance.org/\n
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